Hungry Seal

A Hungry Shark–style arcade game starring a very hungry seal. Swim three big maps (Seal Bay, Arctic, Tropical Lagoon), eat everything smaller than you, grow through 8 sizes, dodge jellyfish, mines, sharks and orcas, beat the squid bosses, and spend your coins on upgrades and skins between runs. Installable and playable offline.

Play it: https://hungry-seal.horly.dev/ (desktop and mobile browsers). Changes: CHANGELOG.md.

Controls

• Mouse: the seal swims toward the cursor; hold the left button to boost
• Keyboard: WASD / arrow keys to swim, Space or Shift to boost
• Touch: a floating joystick: touch anywhere (e.g. bottom-left) and drag to swim; Boost button to dash
• Pause: Esc or P, or the pause button (top-right)
• Leap out of the water to catch birds. Fill the frenzy meter to eat anything.

Development

Built with Phaser 4, TypeScript and Vite.

npm install
npm run dev        # local dev server (npm run dev:host to test on a phone over LAN)
npm run check      # typecheck + lint + unit tests + headless browser playtest
npm run build      # production build in dist/
npm run release    # build + checks + itch.io zip in release/ (see docs/RELEASE.md)

More tools: npm run balance (bot plays a run), npm run perf (phone frame times), npm run browsers (browser matrix), npm run soak (leak test), npm run assets (WebP art).

URL flags: ?debug (overlay and hit circles), ?calm (no hazards or predators).

Project docs: design, architecture, roadmap, assets, release.

Characters, creatures and props are modeled and rendered in Blender by the scripts in tools/blender/; the UI and backgrounds are painted in code, and all sound is synthesized in code. UI font: Baloo 2 (SIL Open Font License), bundled via Fontsource.